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L. PRITTS. HARVESTBR SWATHBR.

No. 579,322. Patented Mar. 23, 1897.

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L. PRITTS. HARVBSTER SWATHBR.

No. 579.822. Patented Mar. 23, 1897.

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HARVESTER-SWATH ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 579,322, dated March23, 1897.

Application filed August 19, 1895. Serial No. 559,729. (No model.)

T at"! whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LEMUEL FRITTS, a citizen of the United States,residing at Sunnyside, in the county of Hunterdon and State of NewJersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inHarvesting-Swathers, of which the following is a specification,reference being had therein to the accompan yin g drawings.

My invention is a swathing device to be attached to harvester machinesor binders, and in its essential features is a moldboard of sheetmaterial so adjusted upon the inclined de1ivery-board of the said binderthat it will rotate the bundle or loose grain, as it maybe, and throwthe same off at the side of the machine into a swath.

I will explain my device with the aid of the accompanying drawings, andthen define the substance of my claim. I

Figure 1 shows a delivery-board with my invention thereto attached. Fig.2 is a vertical section of the invention. Fig. 3 is an enlarged View ofthe bracket by which I adjust and support my swathing-board, and Fig.4.- is a vertical section of the bracket. Fig. 5 shows the swather asattached to a side-delivery harvester of familiar type.

In all of the figures the same numeral rep resents the same part.

1 is the delivery-board, with side plate 2 and a swather 3 attached toit at edges 4 and 5. The swather 3 is essentially a moldboard of thinmetal plate, preferably galvanized iron, and is supported in itspeculiar shape by means of a bracket 6, having flanges 7 with slot 8,through which said bracket is attached to the delivery-board by means ofbolt 9. Similar slots 11 in the flanges 12 of the bracket permit thefastening of the swather-plate to the bracket also by means of bolts.permit variable adjustment to conform to the desired curve contour ofthe swather-plate 3, as the sliding in and out of the bracket 6 willraise and lower the swath er proper and change its conformation.

In the operation of my device the bundles or gavels are deflected to theside of the machine by the swather-board and thus formed into windrowsor swaths.

Having described my machine, what I desire to claim in my Letters Patentis- In combination with the inclined deliveryboard of a harvester, amoldboard 3 secured thereto, a supporting-bracket therefor, said brackethaving slots 8 and 11 and bolts adapted to enter said slots and engagethe delivery-board and the moldboard, in the manner and substantially asdescribed.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

LEMUEL FRIT'llS.

\Vitnesses L. B. BAKER, J. K. HOFFMAN.

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